Gediminas Šinkūnas

Gediminas Šinkūnas (1958–?) was born in Vilnius into a working-class family. In 1974, he became a member of the Komsomol (Communist Youth League). In 1976, he graduated from Vilnius 39th (Salomėja Nėris) Secondary School and applied to study the Mechanised Processing of Economic Information at the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of Vilnius Vincas Kapsukas State University. The management of the Faculty of Finance and Accounting considered the behaviour of Šinkūnas to be “political hooliganism”, thus justifying his expulsion from the university. In January 1977, by the Order of the Rector, he was removed from the student list “for behaviour incompatible with the status of a Soviet student. According to researchers of the history of Vilnius University, he participated in the incident when a Lenin bas-relief was taken down from the Vilnius Central Post Office and later thrown into the Neris River.

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